Re: last call comments for draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-06

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, snip I'm not thinking of today but the future.  And yes, another argument would be that there isn't enough address space for this to be effectively private.  Those are two different issues, but fixing the boundary here reminds me of mistakes we made with IPv4 way back when. In

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Smith
Just remember kids, disagreeing is not attacking. accusing them of attacking when all they're doing is disagreeing is an attack on them. don't assume people have no real world experience or responsibilities if they choose not to announce to the world their job title or their affiliations in

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 20:54:50 +0200 Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Ronald Bonica rbon...@juniper.net wrote: - In order for the new draft to be published, it must achieve both V6OPS WG and IETF consensus If anyone objects to this course of

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:21:36 -0700 Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 2, 2011 11:55 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Ronald Bonica rbon...@juniper.net wrote: - In order for the new draft to be published, it must achieve both V6OPS

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 10:10:03 +0900 Erik Kline e...@google.com wrote: All, Perhaps declaring 6to4 deprecated rather than historic would have a better chance of consensus. Pardon my ignorance, but where is the document describing the implications of historic{,al} vs deprecated? This

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:44:24 -0700 Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 07/02/2011 18:50, Mark Smith wrote: Where is the evidence that 6to4 is holding back native IPv6 deployment? It's been discussed ad nauseum in numerous fora. Discussion isn't evidence, as people usually don't

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:02:02 -0700 Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: snip In the meantime, i null route the 6to4 anycast address because it creates half open state in my CGN. Been doing that for at least 5 years. So, to be clear, you're not making an observation that 6to4 is broken,

Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Smith
to make 6to4 historic are not based on issues specific to 6to4. If 6to4 is made historic, does he then start lobbying for UDP-historic? On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Mark Smith wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:02:02 -0700 Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: snip In the meantime, i null

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:43:23 -0700 Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: ... about 80% of the time. Or 99.999% of the time once you get it setup. The problem isn't 6to4, it's *automatic* 6to4. No, because you

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Gert, On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:51:26 +0200 Gert Doering g...@space.net wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:15:17PM +0930, Mark Smith wrote: I have a vested interest in anycast 6to4 continuing to exist, This actually brings up a good argument: are you going to pay for us to run

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:59:47 -0700 Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: Very few of the people using 6to4 in this way will show up in Google's user behavior analysis, of course, because Google doesn't run its own

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:05:33 -0700 Erik Kline e...@google.com wrote: The youtube folks made the decision to leave the video-serving hostnames available in blacklist-mode, meaning only very broken networks won't get s. This is being watched, and could easily change back. The exact

Last Call: draft-mrw-nat66-07.txt (IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation) to Experimental RFC

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, I've been aware of this draft for a while, and have begrudgingly felt that if any form of address translation is going to occur in IPv6 then the method described in this I-D was a good way to do it, as it avoids many of the drawbacks of many of the IPv4 NAT and NAPT methods. One area where I

Re: An example of what is wrong with the IETF's IPv6 documentation

2007-10-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:52:36 +0200 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As IETF Sergeant-at-arms, I will suggest that this topic is specific to 6MAN and should be further discussed there. Books worked for me, but then again, I'm willing to spend my own money on keeping my knowledge

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Ole Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If by IPSec you mean what the marketing folks call VPN, then so far it has worked just fine. Muticast, VOIP and the rest of stuff you mention probably does NOT work, but my point was that this is NOT what most

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:03:46 +0100 Christian de Larrinaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip A traveller cannot change ISP easily so either will just have to accept some things cannot be done or will find a way. As it happens one can preplan and setup a proxy service or a tunnel broker etc that

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:40:03 -0400 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ohta-san, I do not expect that we will agree on this, and may need to simply agree to disagree, but, having just reviewed the draft you included in your slightly earlier not, let me try to explain the other point of

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-19 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Hadmut, On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:42:23 +0200 Hadmut Danisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, at least here in Germany Internet providers tend to do and not to do what they want. - Some cut off their clients every 24 hours (DSL) - Some block or slowdown particular tcp ports to get

Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-05-31 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:20:49 -0600 (MDT) Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, spam filtering can be quite effective. Not using spam filtering ... I don't like the chances of false positives or negatives. Today either you filter spam

Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-05-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 30 May 2004 08:45:41 -0600 (MDT) Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nathaniel Borenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip As Mr. Borenstein knows, a substantial fraction and probably most spam is current sent using $30/month consumer accounts. The spam that is not sent using

Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-05-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 30 May 2004 11:04:32 -0600 (MDT) Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] people to monitor and deal with their abusive customers. That is why many of the providers of those $30/month accounts submit their own IP address blocks to various

Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-05-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:16:42 -0400 Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathaniel Borenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This would be a very interesting philosophical argument if in fact what we were discussing was something that could take a significant bite out of spam. In the

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2004 03:48:57 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith; A number of commercial products and applications do rely on PMTU to work, and will do an PATH MTU discovery, and send the MTU sized packets withDF (don't frag). and send packets larger than MTU

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:44:16 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith; I'm keen to find out if my understanding of PMTUD purpose and operation is incorrect. Read the RFC or my quotation of it. Ok, well, I haven't got far into it, and it seems to correspond to what

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-09 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:55:43 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dean Anderson; A number of commercial products and applications do rely on PMTU to work, and will do an PATH MTU discovery, and send the MTU sized packets with DF (don't frag). and send packets larger than

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-08 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 09 May 2004 06:43:46 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith; Filtering on protocol/port numbers is a broken concept. Yes, it is. However, it is merely as broken as PMTUD that we don't need security discussion to deny PMTUD. I've understood that what you

Re: Please note this update: IETF mission statement

2004-05-03 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Harald, On Sun, 02 May 2004 22:50:07 -0700 Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to incorporate the extremely useful feedback I got on this list and from the Korea plenary. I hope this is ready to send to IETF-wide Last Call. This is your chance to get at it

Re: [Ietf] 240.0.0.0/4

2004-04-20 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Iljitsch, On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:19:49 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there are any plans to change the status of the class E address space (240.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255). Currently, there are approximately 221 usable /8s: classes A (125), B (64)

Re: P2P - Crime / NAT

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:50:30 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Kolis) wrote: This really doesn't say much about the scalability of the solution. What it indicates is how much effort people are willing to go to to commit what is perceived as victimless crime. Two things. First, here in Canada

Re: dubious assumptions about IPv6 (was death of the Internet)

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:17:55 -0800 Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: These protocols require that at least one side in each transfer is capable of receiving inbound sessions. This is not true. Kaaza does not require to open any ports nor configure anything

Re: dubious assumptions about IPv6 (was death of the Internet)

2004-01-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:55:28 -0500 (EST) Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Keith Moore wrote: The residential users don't need to have a globaly unique IP address. That's like saying residential telephone users don't need to have a phone number at which they

Re: dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:29:02 -0800 Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting reading: some have been asking what the cost of moving from a peer-to-peer to a service/consumer model are, in terms of applications deployed and the ability to build more robust business models. Many ISPs are

Re: [isdf] Re: www.internetforce.org

2004-01-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 07:53:04 -0500 In such context, a more participative behaviour should be welcome. Elits should help and educate rather than keeping the steering so firmly. RFC aren't they meaning Request For Comments ? Why did I never find the button add your comment, yet, on any of

Re: hish email

2004-01-05 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:28:46 -0500 Peter Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Congratulations on your perspicacity. I too was suspicious of this VISA email and immediately went phishing on Google until I saw your email. There must be thousands who were taken in by this despicable

Most impressive Phish I've seen (Fw: Visa Security Update)

2003-12-23 Thread Mark Smith
Just received this Phish email. What is amazing about it is that, while it looks like a plain ascii email, it was actually in HTML, and HTML had been used to make it look like an plain ascii email. I don't remember giving Visa any of my nosense.org email addresses, so I was suspicious.

Re: [Fwd: [isdf] need help from the ietf list...can someone post this for me? or allow me to post directly?]

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Smith
I've heard of one recently where the actual page was from the legitimate bank web site, but the dialog box window asking for username and password detail was the spoofed component. Everythink, including HTTPS locks, URLs etc displayed would have looked, and actually were legitimate. On Sun,

Re: [Fwd: [isdf] need help from the ietf list...can someone post this for me? or allow me to post directly?]

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:33:43 -0500 (EST) shogunx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: People need to rely on their common sense. This isn't a technical problem. It is a social engineering problem. Your best bet is to read Kevin Mitnick's book The Art of

Re: [Fwd: [isdf] need help from the ietf list...can someone post this for me? or allow me to post directly?]

2003-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
And don't trust emails asking for sensitive information. Verify their requests independantly via the phone, for example, and just _don't_ use a phone number that is supplied in the email. On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:26:05 -0500 (EST) shogunx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps the solution is to not

Re: [Fwd: [isdf] need help from the ietf list...can someone post this for me? or allow me to post directly?]

2003-12-20 Thread Mark Smith
There are more scary stories at http://stupidsecurity.com Some people think publishing stories like these are wrong ... in security, it is far better to learn from other people's mistakes than your own. btw, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't receive this ... they are rejecting my

Re: Adding SpamAssassin Headers to IETF mail

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Smith
I just match on either the Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] header, or the ML specific email address I've created. I'm using Sylpheed though, it seems to be more flexible on matching header fields than most other email clients I've used in the past. On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:13:13 -0500 Gordon Cook

More frustrating that not having [ietf] (Fw: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender)

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Smith
I find this more frustrating. I have a dynamic IP address, because fixed IP address ADSL isn't very common here in Australia. So I use DYNDNS to map my domain MX records. I can't get matching PTR records. I'm assuming my mail bounced because I don't have matching PTR and MX records. Why should

Re: Re[6]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:37:23 +0100 Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linux could at least stand on the claim that it was implementing the RFCs as written, and that the interoperability problem was due to the other end failing to implement the RFCs.

Re: Re[8]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:19:15 +0100 Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith writes: So what purpose do RFCs serve if they aren't specific enough to be complied with ? They can easily be complied with and yet still be general. It's just that there may be argument

Re: Re[2]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:19:49 +0100 Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kristoff writes: Those are pretty bold statements. Well, when something pops up in software I use that adds functionality that I never wanted and breaks things that used to work, bold statements are in

Re: Re[4]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Smith
If I have a system that does everything I require, I don't need improvements. So your currently requirements are exactly the same as all the other users of the Internet ? I find it hard to believe that your requirements are exactly the same as mine, and I'm only one of the other